Betekenis van citizen In het Nederlands

• 0 a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights, or a person who lives in a particular town or city:

  • The interests of British citizens living abroad are protected by the British Embassy.

  • He applied to become an American citizen.

  • The citizens of Moscow woke up this morning to find they had a new government.

  • Old people are just treated like second-class citizens (= unimportant people).

  • He reassured people that law-abiding citizens (= people who do not break the law) would have nothing to fear from the enquiries.

• 1 a person who was born in a particular country and has certain rights or has been given certain rights because of having lived there:

  • Nabokov was a Russian, then had British citizenship, and then became an American citizen.

  • A large part of our job is to educate citizens about their rights.

  • Old people have been treated like second-class citizens.

  • My sister is now a New Hampshire citizen.

• 2 a person who is a member of a state or country, and has legal rights there:

  • a British citizen

  • To work in the US you must be a legal citizen or have a valid work visa.